Music Festivals from Bach to Blues: A Traveler’s Guide
This is a comprehensive guide to 1,001 music festivals in the U.S. and Canada. Over 200 entries discuss the biggest and best festivals and provide full descriptions of the artistic focus, who’s performing, and what festival-goers can expect. All entries give the particulars like dates, times, prices, contact information, location and transport details, and resources for nearby lodging. Includes maps, indexes, and photos.
— In 1997, From Bach to Blues won the American Library Association’s Reference Book of the Year
Reviews:
“Covers everything from Arctic punk rockers in the midnight sun of Canada’s Yukon to zydeco in Louisiana.” —The New York Times
“Music Festivals from Bach to Blues is a veritable encyclopedia of musical events in the USA and Canada.” —USA Today
“A unique listener’s guide to all genres of tuneful revelry across North America.” —Time Magazine
“If you want to visit an Afropop concert in September, this guide will show you the way. The indexes are particularly valuable.” —Los Angeles Times
“In sheer size, the 582-page Music Festivals from Bach to Blues goes far beyond the usual guidebook, but the sound spectrum it covers truly distinguishes it.” —New City
“Makes any music lover’s mouth water in anticipation.” —Hemispheres
“This eclectic directory will offer a wealth of smashing additions to your summer vacation plans.” —Chicago Life
“Clynes’s search for Cajun accordionists, Cape Breton fiddlers, Quebec balladeers, Hawaiian falsetto singers and Native American drummers and dancers is now compiled within 582 pages for $18.95.” —Madison Capital Times
“Without Tom Clynes’s masterpiece of a music festival guide, it would take a stupefying amount of effort to glean information about the 1,001 music festivals in the United States and Canada his book details, organized by region, then cross-referenced by date, name, and genre. Music festival fans will marvel how they ever got along without it.” — Amazon Expert Editor
Tom Clynes is a journalist and photographer whose curiosity has taken him to some of the world's most remote corners. Tom covers environmental issues, energy and science.